Immigrants' relative earnings in Sweden - A cohort analysis

Labour

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 285-323

  Hammarstedt, Mats ^a   Shukur, Ghazi ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; IMMIGRATION POLICY; LABOR MIGRATION; MIGRANT WORKER; MIGRANTS REMITTANCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 33845380584     PISSN: 11217081     EISSN: 14679914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2006.00339.x     Document Type: Article

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